US Represented is pleased that staff member Kevin Arnold has published his novel, The Sureness of Horses, with Manzanita Press. Kevin is a writer and teacher from Portola Valley and Palo Alto, California. He was the winner of the 2009 San Francisco Book Festival for short fiction and named Writer of the Year by the San Francisco / […]
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Christopher Parent, my friend Jerome’s son, died on February 28, 2018. He was just 32 years old, the victim of physical and life problems that would have pushed anyone to the limit. The moment I learned of his death, I felt relief for him and sorrow for his family, who will be suffering for the
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“What’s on your mind, Gary?” Facebook has been asking me this question a lot lately. Maybe you’ve been getting it too. I’ve been delaying my answer, partly because I’m not sure Facebook really cares. I’m also pretty sure it already knows the answer. In case you missed it, Facebook recently pulled another no-no in the
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Exhibit A: For the past few months, I’ve been re-watching one of my favorite television series, Monk. Maybe you know it. Tony Shalhoub plays Adrian Monk, a brilliant detective who works through endless phobias and social anxieties to solve crimes on a weekly basis. It’s hilarious, well-written, and brilliantly acted. Lately, I’ve noticed something else about
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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad When I was in seventh grade in 1977,
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Tomorrow, yours truly, the Academic Redneck, embarks on a once-in-a-lifetime historical study adventure, “Iwo Jima and the War in the Pacific,” through Stephen Ambrose Historical Tours. My trip will begin in Honolulu, Hawaii, where I’ll tour the USS Arizona and other relevant Pearl Harbor landmarks. Then it’s on to Guam, Saipan, and Tinian before climbing Mt.
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